Dual boot Vista/Vista amd Easy BCD1.7.2

My approach to backups is obviously different than most users. I have a duplicate hard drive with EasyBCD 1.7.2 [thanks to somebody on this forum] and it has been perfect for 6 months.

On Saturdays, I live copy drive one to drive two and can dual boot to either one. I know that I have a perfectly functioning backup.

Until three nights ago when I installed the Monster MS Office Suite. Since then, drive one wil not boot, and the BCD option does not even appear.

Blinking cursor from hell.

So, in CMOS, I swamped drive sequence to boot to drive two first. Works perfectly, and I can select drive one which works perfectly. But oddly enough, now it will not allow me to boot to drive two.

Inside Easy BCD, I try to 'add' the second drive [which is F] but it pops U into the box. I don't have a U drive, and it does not work.

So, i "think" this is a BCD problem, but can't get it to show my bootable drives, C and F.

What happens when you boot the second drive? I haven't used EasyBCD since I learned how to use the command prompt for this stuff. You can't edit it so that the second drive is F? I remember being able to do that.

That's the odd part. I "used" to have C and F as the two boot choices, C being primary, F being the backup made once a week. At least twice a month I would boot to the second hard drive [F] just to ensure it works. Always did until now.

Now I enter F in the BCD drop menu, but it then changes it to "U". It took so long to get running that I'm almost afraid to reboot to see if this mystery U drive works. I don't see how. Neither My Computer or Partition Magic show a U drive.

EasyBCD once used to change my XP entry to C when I knew for a fact that it was on D. I kept changing it back to D, not knowing that the boot info for XP was indeed on C. EasyBCD knew better than me. You may want to try and trust EasyBCD. Goodluck! Post back with the results..

I just learned there is a a version 2 build 64 [beta] but it can't be worse than this mess.

Just dn-lded it and will try.